I think this is not a good reason to replace LaTeX. The big advantage of TeX over other systems is the extensibility of the language. Yes, the language is stran

I think this is not a good reason to replace LaTeX. The big advantage of TeX over other systems is the extensibility of the language. Yes, the language is strange, but you get used to it, and it does what it's supposed to do. So I think that, just like UNIX, replacing TeX will never be completely done, unless something really great shows up.